You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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